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How soil could help us reach climate targets

From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.

13.11.2025 4

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Jess Davies

A landfill tax could halt the vast amounts of healthy soil that are needlessly thrown away

Only 1.5% of soil arriving at waste facilities in England was classed as hazardous, suggesting we are throwing away mostly healthy, usable soil.

31.10.2025 3

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Jess Davies

How your festival wee could disrupt soil health and water quality

Festival season is in full flow, and like any self-respecting plant-soil biogeochemist attending a local music festival, I’m curious about how...

22.08.2024 4

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Jess Davies